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Tony Wall appointed Airdri Group CEO

The Airdri Group has confirmed the appointment of Tony Wall as chief executive officer from 1st May 2018. Reporting to Bruce Philipps and the Airdri Board, Tony will oversee the day-to-day operations of the group in Oxford, Chicago, Shanghai and Guangzhou and will have a strong focus on sales growth across the key products and markets in which Airdri operates.

"We are delighted that Tony will be joining us and look forward to the benefit of his extensive experience in engineering, sales, research & development and people management," says Bruce Philipps, Airdri president. "Over the past four years we have established a strong operating platform, bringing hand dryer manufacturing in-house, establishing two elevator manufacturing ventures in China, investing in a new state of the art facility in Guangzhou to service our customer needs better and bringing in the right level of talent to ensure everything we do is high quality.

"The next stage in our development is to drive company growth and we are confident Tony is the right person to lead that charge."

Commenting on his appointment Tony said: "I am very much looking forward to joining
Airdri and working with the team on expanding our market share whilst continuing to provide a world class service to our customers. Innovation and quality are at the heart of all we do and will continue to be a major focus over the years to come."

Tony is currently the CEO at Ipro Solutions, a UK based company with operations in Asia, that offers complete manufacturing solutions with one point of contact for a wide range of bespoke, high quality engineered components and assemblies, including plastics,
metals and electronics. Prior to this, Tony held appointments across varying sectors
including managing director of the Air Division at Qinetiq for five years, a global company in the research, evaluation and development arena. He started his working life as a Royal Air Force Engineer Officer.

T: +44 (0)1865 882330
W: www.airdri.com

22nd February 2018